Hi
I've got a few pics I'll dig them out scan them and can email you them if will help any?👍

I use to have a gentleman, keen model plane & boat builder help my because I have special needs, I am very say my friend passed last year, I've a 5 foot HMS Lion, I've brought the motors and other pieces but I am afraid attempting on my own without his guidance I've wasted nearly £100 of wood, I need somebody to guide me once more, please is there anybody interested in building this battlecruiser with me? I live in Basingstoke, Hampshire. To tell you the truth after wasting all that wood I just pushed the hull under my bed with the promise to Bill that I would complete it in the end nomatter what

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Hi there
Thanks for the question, it was the Lion from WW1, had a gun cover blown off at Jutland, was the flag ship to that dick head Beatty, who got those ships & men blown through his incompetency during Jutland. Do you know the one, she was built 1912-1914, was flag ship throughout WW1, was scraped I think 1920-21?

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I have a rather expensive dilemma and am really hoping that somebody might be willing to help me please…I have a £100, HMS Lion hull and £200, driving gear made specifically for this ship. I used to make RC Ships with a close friend, but he passed away beginning of this year. The problem I have is I was in a road accident a long time ago and as a result I damaged my brain, fracturing my skull. My friend use to be my memory for me explaining what has/had to be done because I forget after a very short while. I am not asking you to pay anything, it was our ship, his uncle or something served on her just after Jutland and Bill wanted to make as much as he could, this is now I want to make as much, I realise that I am asking a lot, but I’m not that bad and it might be fun, I’ve already built 4, ships with Bill, if you’d like a chat my email is hazelldamon2@googlemail.com or leave a message here I’ll then give you phone numbers…Thank you Damon😁 PS. After all the above I forgot to mention where I'm located, sorry...I live in Basingstoke, Hampshire

I apologise for not replying folks but I'm afraid this is part of my problem, I forgot I'd placed the request & I now need to remember how to reply to each response 07706,439865 this is my mobile...thanks, sorry I have plans of HMS Lion, but there isn't any measurements on the plans, I've tried converting the plan to the size of the hull I have, it's about 6ft in length

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She is stunningly beautiful, can easily see why took so long, bloody well done!!!

Looking forward to meeting, chatting sinking our boats together lol 😉

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They look great, I've built British MTB, A German S Boat, now I want to do the American & Japanese boats, do you have plans for your boat that I could buy from you?
Thanks

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HI there...thank you so much for the message, I have looked briefly at the pictures & they will be of great use, thank you so much Sir Terrence, it is very humbling when royalty helps a commoner such as myself, I hope you have a splendid Christmas & new year celebrations maybe some time you might permit me to come to you Royal park & I can by then have finished Lion it would be great to have a Royal seal of approval 💀 😎 👽 😱

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Hello one & all, well I just brought the largest fibreglass hull I've ever brought The ship is: HMS Lion 1912, she's just over 7ft in length. As she is so big, the hull is all I am planning on buying...great idea if when I brought the hull plans were provided, of course that would of been too logical, however I was directed to someplace connected to SS Great Britain that sales plans. I rang them & yes they do & yes they have copies & yes they sort everything out sending me an email...6 weeks 2 phone calls later both call I spoke to same lady, Please does anybody have or know of plans for the 1912 Battle Cruiser HMS Lion of course I'll happily pay for whatever is available, I am at a complete lose at what to do, can anybody help me please?

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She is going to look really good there, I am really looking forward to see the completed lady in the ogin lol

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I think this model & the other London Barge are in my opinion some of the most beautiful I have seen, now I've built 5 boats & one from scratch Do you it's possible I could make one, if I need extra experience do you any idea where I might be able to pick up help full tips for making these Barge's & a traditional sail? Thanks a lot Please keep me up to date on your progress...have fun

Damon

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Hey there
I know the boat, I've not got one but a few folks have. There's two things you can do Carl? One you can buy a rudder from a model shop, they come in 3 sizes, you want the small one. Once you've got it thread it in the hole in the middle of the stern. Now there might be a raised area a little way from the hole, if there is I suggest it could be for the servo to e placed make 4 walls to house the servo stopping it from moving. Probably same model shop you get the rudder from will have the servo. A lot of folk are raving about micro servo's, yes they're good but not for what your servo is having to do. I realise it may seem very little but turning the boat while its moving is too much for a micro. On to of the rudder you buy is a bar with 2 holes , you want to put a bar on the servo don't panic it will be the bits which should of come with the servo. Once crewed on you want 2 stiff lengths of wire the length being from the servo to the rudder, Left hole in servo put one end of wire, to left side servo the same on right side. You've got a wire coming from the servo with a box shaped housing attached to the wire, this wire be pushed into the receiver I tend to use number 3, but 4 is OK but once boat is turned on move the right lever on the transmitter to find out which moves your best, i.e. the quickest response & then moves the furthest.
The other option is make a rudder out brass, your need a length of tubed brass & a flat piece How are you at soldering Carl? if you've not done it before then I'd suggesting buy your rudder & follow roughly what I've previously written

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HI Carl what type of boat are you making, how large, small is it finally how authentic do you want her to be? Just a rough guess on size will do, but an authentic vessel may also have double rudder? 😀

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George, if things become desborate I made a tug from scratch, I put all of the cut out's onto card I'd me more than happy to send the instructions with copies of these cut out's just take a while coz there's a lot of them? Hope this will help if all else fails
Damon

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Dave
Hey M8 latest news...I got an electrician out we then rang MTroniks, neither of the gents I'd previously spoken to were there so I spoke to a third individual I can't remember his name. I explained to him everything that has occurred, MSC not worked 8 times, I've changed everything concerned with propulsion of the craft. I'd tested the motor with nothing connected to bar the lipo battery, then a 12,v battery & finally a 3000 MAH Battery results were the first two the motor worked, the MAH wasn't enough power. The gent then stated I am using the wrong MSC! Hold on my reply I've explained every time I rang MTroniks that I'm using lipo batteries, why haven't I been informed this before? He couldn't answer this question, but he's going to send one of these MSC I've had a look & its an MTroniks TIO Marine 50 & the price for one of these is £59:99.
Dave I've read the leaflet of the viper marine 20 No where does it say not for use with lipo & on the info re TIO doesn't say for lipo's so if it doesn't have this information How are we supposed to know about these differences "Mind reading?"
I've added a pic of the TIO for you to ponder Dave
Hope all is well
Damon

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Hey Dave
The Right lever is steering & Left should be power. Put both motor's in clamp connected 12v to em boy did they go with & without those dehydrator things attached...back to draw board, sorry Dave & everybody offered advice. it has to be me you know coz this same thing with the ESC has happened to every boat bar one, I've taken her almost to bit & back, but there's no difference except different motor, but it's a marine brushless motor I brought em from Howes Models

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The acceleration is left hand lever. I mount mind on small wooden frame for no reason other than piece of mind. I wouldn't use 11.1 in a boat probably power will shear motor out of hull. I use 4 MAX Purple Power 7.4-5000 mAh & that is more than enough power for what I use

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Hey Dave
sorry its taken me sometime to answer but I wanted to test both boats to see whether or not results were different or anything else

MTB: Disconnected wiring & distributors from the motor cleaned everything up, also charged the battery. Clean solder used cleanest I've ever done 😀 Wiring correctly throughout the boat. Turned TM on Then RX on afterwards the ESC flashed alternate Red & Green couple of seconds both light remained constant, is that right or should just the green light remain on?
Anyway once completed rudder worked as per normal R lever up & down, but no power side to side on R lever or L lever, Same as before ESC has the button, it's the one they changed.

S Boat: Removed everything bar red black wires, tested these motor worked. After cleaning used flux & distributors off the motor then made sure wiring correct as the diagrams in both T ronics leaflets. This ESC was the new sort it taught itself all I had to do was move lever up=accl down=brake & then left & right turning Once this was completed Turned the TM on followed RX First tried the rudder fine same as before....wait for it no power Wiring completed as the diagrams in the 2x T ronic leaflets I have Dave I am sorry but same result in two separate boats
Anyway Dave how's your hols coming along this week, having fun?
Damon

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Thank you so much Dave. I'm going to try what you've suggested & I'll let you know the result
Damon

Dave & peeps, I've taken some shots from the MTB for you, the S boat is exactly the same, I just couldn't get as clear a photograph as these. You will see I hope that the only change is the connection to the Lipo battery, instead of that old style I've soldered Deans connection, these are the latest & the best. I hope that you will see that the wiring I think is completed correctly...I hope anyway
Thanks a lot
Damon


PS Your see two batteries, don't worry can only use one as a time, the two will help ballast okay

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HI Dave
I haven't any photographs but I take what I can tomorrow, I will say though the wiring I did was exactly shown in the instruction booklet in with the ESC, The only difference was I changed the battery connection, The old connection was changed to the new Deans plug which the connection is much stronger than before
Thanks for your support Dave

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I am really sorry to discredit a company selling items for RC Boats! Okay I've only been building boats just over a year now, but I've brought 6, Viper Marine 20 Speed Controllers. Now I am probably the only one that this has ever happened to, but when it came time to use each, they each had to be sent back because they didn't work for one reason or another. > 😟 I brought 6 of their Speed Controllers and all 6 had to be sent back. 😡 At the present time I have an MTB & an S Boat, each one with the new make of controller, you don't have to bind it in & the second is the old standard, its a Marine 20. Now both I can get the rudder's to work, but neither motor's work. All 6 boats have been wired exactly the same way. The company has been good enough to exchange each MSC but I've had to pay postage, when you're not working the cost adds up. Please I need some help...thank you

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Hey not sure who'll be interested but 29,th September at Axminster Tools, Winchester Road, Basingstoke, RG22 6,HN. There's a roadshow tour of Unplugged tools & introducing their new tools, giving demonstrations, customers can try tools out as well, I've been told the show starts 09:00 & finishes dead on 14:30. The lorry will be in the store's car park, they have tea's & coffee's & the nearest toilet is in a garage which is across the road. I went to the first one held last year it was great, they didn't have micro tools, but what they had was good quality power tools with the staff being knowledgeable about the range both old & new. 😀

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Well myself & a friend are in tending to come so we'll see you there 😎 😁

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Hey
Thanks for such a quick reply, I haven't a clue if anybody from Basingstoke are coming, I am not a member, but hopefully myself & a friend will be coming. At the moment I am building a German e Boat: S1 At present I am busy looking for parts to go on the boat & same time my friend is building a Battle class Destroyer & I think he's looking for parts too, is there going to be anyone selling parts for boats?
Thank you so much for your time, patience & energy used
Damon 😀

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Hey there 😀
Please could you tell me a little more about Exhibition, I walk with crutches so what is excess like & finally how much will it be to enter? Thank you
Damon

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Thank you so much for the support means a lot cheers Damon

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Hey there
Thank you so much for such a detailed answer its helping me to hopefully decide what way I want to go. At the present moment I am beginning to leave the idea of buying a fibreglass hull & instead to try scratch build, the hull might be possible, but maybe the radio controled mast is a little too far at the moment as I've been making boats just under a year now. I would love to see your burge afloat working sometime, sounds fantastic. Can I ask you if possible do you know of any diagrams of the hulls the same hull as you've built would be great but any barge's would be cool? is the base of your barge flat bottomed, also do you know the finished weight of the model?
Once again thank you so much for you support it is really helping me decide what I want to do 😀

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That look great, I saw boats like that at a model engineering show earlier this year, I can't remember the name of where it was, but it was at some race course Anyway I was very Impressed with the boats on display, the sails colours look cool lol 😀 Can I ask how long did it take to plan/build, also did you use a sewing machine on the sails?
Thanks for reading & the time you spend on it 😊

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Mark hi
I understand what you said in you message, personally I buy what I can afford then no matter how things work out I've done my best, I realise that Tamiya maybe the bees knees but it is so bloody expensive & if like me you can't work buying their stuff is generally out of the question. Yes we should support the local shops, but how about them supporting us a little?
Nevermind thanks for your advice
Damon

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